"What we are currently observing as data from sociological agencies is that we will see a result quite different from this one , which was the position of the political forces in the previous parliamentary elections".
This was commented on the air of Darik Radio by the political scientist Prof. Milen Lyubenov. According to him, this electoral reshuffle can either make it easier to form the government or make it more difficult. According to Lyubenov, with a lower voter turnout, fragmentation always increases, because the threshold for entering the parliament of 4%, as absolute numbers, decreases.
There are voters who “swing” between one or another of the small ones (note - formations). They are looking for something decidedly new and different. And at the last moment, either they will go to vote or they will not go to vote”, commented political scientist Assoc. Tatiana Burudzhieva.
In her words, there are two specific things about this election, one is that there is no battle for first place.
"Even when we had one-party governments, there was still a fight, until the last moment, in the hope that the result could be reversed. The match is now played".
According to Burudzhieva, the battle is not for the first place, but rather for the second, but mostly for the fourth. "The focus is not how you connect with the voter, but how to ruin the other. When you have strong parties, you also have a completely different motivation.
The second specific feature, according to her, is around the line for jumping over and entering the National Assembly.
"You have at least three, four, five entities that are not in "others", but no one can say if they are really 1% and something or if they are over 4%.
" strong>For Burudzhieva, the rivalry at the moment is about being different and going with slow steps. According to her, a huge variety of "end forms of patients" to "extreme forms of very valuable speaking".
According to Milen Ljubenov, there is currently a great disappointment among voters who voted in the previous elections for a certain party and now think that by voting for a smaller party, it will be interpreted as a penalty vote.